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A new Czech and Slovakian Permanent Exhibition at the Auschwitz I Site

"Czech Prisoners in Auschwitz Concentration Camp" will be located upstairs in Block no. 16, with "The Tragedy of the Slovakian Jews" on the ground floor of the same building. The exhibitions are being designed and set up by the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Museum in the Czech Republic and the Slovakian National Uprising Museum in Banka Bystryca, Slovakia, in the name of the ministries of culture of the two countries.

Both exhibitions will sketch the historical background and the situation in which Czechoslovakia found itself after the Munich pact, the entry of the Germans, and, finally, the formation of the puppet government of Slovakia and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The exhibitions will illustrate the reign of terror and persecution in specific regions, but the main focus will be on deportation to Auschwitz Concentration Camp and the fate of the people sent to the camp.